Peace Corps Volunteers (PCVs) and counterparts, in collaboration with community members, will identify and address needs in their communities.

Some of the tasks that will accompany this work include:

Teaching sixteen to twenty-four periods, forty minutes per class each week in the science content areas of either biology, chemistry or physics at the “Advanced” or “Ordinary” level with up to fifty students in each class. Most classes meet for double periods.

Preparing lesson plans using a variety of teaching methods and a syllabus developed by the Ministry of Education

Developing teachings aids from locally available materials

Facilitate ICT activities at your school if needed to promote the use of technology in secondary schools

Teaching and supervising student laboratory experiments

Assessing student learning

Conducting out-of-class activities to reinforce classroom learning

Self-evaluating teaching and classroom management styles and making periodic adjustments and improvements as necessary

Developing professional relationships with Tanzanian teachers with the aim to collaborate on education activities